Thursday-5-9-2024

Episode Transcript

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We'll call it the Feels Like FridayEdition because Ross just told me. He
says that he feels like it's Friday. Yeah. I feel like this week's
has been pretty even because we've hadsome bangers here as of late. Although
today's show does prove to be fun, maybe not as fun as you know,

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roasting Boston for thirty minutes. Dude. By the way, Ross,
I did confirm with our bosses andour Greensboro ped sent me a photo.
He doesn't just have a kiss tattoo. He also has a Red Sox logo
tattoo. And yeah, he hasa tattoo of our radio station we worked

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out to like twenty years ago,but I guess twenty four years ago.
Hold, I'm gonna send you this, and I'll say I'll send you I'll
send you the response. Tell meI'm not wrong on this. Hang on,
doude do do? Do? Iwant to hit Ross with this cold

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So I didn't send it to himbefore the show. All right, that
is swoosh on its way to you. Well, I continue to explain where
we're going with this, so uh, CNN might have conducted one of the
most destructive joke heighten interviews I've everseen. And that's saying something man,

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and I I don't understand it.I guess it is is the way that
I'll first approach it, like Iunderstood it when you know they were kind
of shopping Gavin Newsom around with notreally shopping Gavin Newsom around. But remember
even though and and I think peopleare forgetting this in some of the comments,

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even though you remember you're dealing withsouper. They have super delegates and
stuff, so like until that convention'sdone, I don't know, plus the
conventions in Chicago, so that'll bewild. All right. I'll get to
some of that audio. So you'vehad a chance to review my observation.

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Am I wrong? I guess Icould see how you're seeing that. I
see like the top of a superheromask, like with the eye holes.
Oh okay, this is like arorshack test. But I mean to be
fair. I mean he's posing hisarm, so that's not how you see
on his arm right like, becauseit's yeah if you if you look at
it, what he's done is he'ssitting at a desk, his desk and

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it's on his left arm, andhe just took a photo of his arm.
Just kind of sticking out to him. So if he's standing up,
then the logo straight, but whenyou're arms doing something like typing, the
logo is going to be sideways.I just pointed out that if you look
at the if you look at itand at that angle, it looks like
where the insides of the letter Bare because of the the the font,

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I never realized it looks like twobutts in the air, maybe like two
butts surrounded by fire, surrounded byfire, or I assume they are waiting
for the Yankees to show up,who lead the all time series by almost
twenty five percent, so that's apossibility, or that's Bill Buckner and whoever

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made the Ruth trade. But eitherway, that did amuse me. So
AnyWho where was I sidetracked there?And that's okay, that's how we roll,
all right, do do do?I guess we'll start with Biden because
I'm gonna have to play this audiomultiple times and it's it's worth it,

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and like I know people are obviouslyand we'll get into the more serious stuff
or hung up on that, butthat like like him saying things like INFLA,
was it nine percent when I tookoffice, which is something he said
yesterday. It wasn't it was atone point four percent. You know,
that's that's the usual cringe. That'spoliticking. Right. And then as you're

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hearing this cut, he also inone of these cuts we we got several,
he also just kind of goes,it's not well, it's not true,
which, by the way, isa hallmark response, not just for
Democrats, many Republicans will do thattoo, but when you stack it with
everything else, yeah, it's nota good. Look. Here we go.

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Let's just get into this, andlet's start with that cut, the
serious cut in question. Okay,it's also true right now, mister president,
that voters by a wide margin trustTrump more on the economy. They
say that in polls, and partof the reason for that may be the
numbers, and you're aware of manyof these. Of course, the cost
of buying a home in the UnitedStates is double what it was when you

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look at your monthly costs from beforethe pandemic. Real income when you account
for inflation, is actually down sinceyou took office. Economic growth last week
far short of expectations. Consumer confidence, maybe no surprise, is near a
two year low, with less thansix months to go to election day?

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Are you worried that you're running outof time to turn that around? All
right? Real quick? For Ilet him answer. So in her list
there she mentioned a poll, right, who trust? Who's trusted more?
On the economy? You probably seenthat reported. But then she went with
straight fact numbers that are not polls. Okay, The home prices are not

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a figment of your imagination, asanyone knows. Buying power is not a
figment, as anyone knows. Okay, all right, So with that in
mind, let's say, you,sir, we've already turn it ond.
Look look at the Michigan served atOkay, okay, all right, So
he hits it with another poll.All right, fair enough, let's go

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for sixty five percent of American peoplethink they're in good shape economic d I
think the nation's not in good shape, but they're personally good shape. The
polling data has been wrong all along. Look, I don't disagree that.
I think that a lot of thepolling we see is a bs. But
do you guys follow his tweet?I want to say, follow him because

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he's not typeding it. Do youfollow his Twitter account and the official potus
one because we do. I doon the show account. That's because we
follow newsmakers and every day, allday with a community note attached. Within
three minutes, they put out thesame rotation of about ten tweets, right

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like I created yesterday that you knowI created fifteen million jobs? How about
you know that, which obviously islike post covid, like you understand the
caveat there, and he puts thatout, but he'll put poll numbers stuff
out like just rinse and repeat,and it's just garbage in, garbage out.

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Okay, But that's honestly, I'mnot surprised by that assertion. And
I don't think that that's just aBiden thing. I think that's somebody who's
staring at a big stack of numbersthat don't want to answer fair enough.
Here here's the part we got totalk about, and I'm just gonna play

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it, and I want you to. I want you to try to tell
me what you think he meant tosay, because I know what he meant
to say, but he didn't.All right, So uh, here is
him talking about and I'll set theseat. He's talking. She's talking about
Trump versus him, and the pointthat Biden's trying to make is that,

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you know, look at some ofthe some of the stuff that Trump supports,
our Democrat stuff, and we thankhim for that, you know that
that kind of stuff. Right,So you're that and that's fine. He's
welcome to have that opinion, butit is what he was wanting to do
with the opinion. Here we gocuriously, just like they did in September
seven, I mean on Changuary sixth, the guy is not a Democrat with

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a small D, all right,And and it's actually a little more round
about how they how they got ontothe January sixth thing. But again,
I'm gonna play this cut for you. Tell me what you think he's going
seriously, just like they did inSeptember seven. I mean on Changuary sixth,
the guy is not a Democrat witha small D. Okay, all
right? But I mean, Iknow what he's trying to say about what

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he just said was that Trump hasa giant sports car. That's what he
says. He's not a Democrat witha smile. And at the same point,
he's trying to say that Trump hasa small sports car. But what
he actually says is all Democrats havesmall sports cars. Small right. Mmmmmm,
it's completely backfired if you let me, let me tell you as as

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a dude, okay, as adude, making jokes about another dude like
that within a circle of friends isa time honor tradition. These two are
not friends, but it's okay.They're politicians. They're going to do some
of this. But let me tellyou what if you're gonna if you're gonna

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lay one of those jokes out andwhat he what he was meaning to say
is he's he's not. This ismy theory. Okay. I think what
he was trying to say he wastrying to attack Trump's some of his political

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decisions, but also he wanted tohe wanted to even say that when you
do things like that, you're nota big d Democrat, you're a You're
not a democrat, but with asmall But he didn't land it, okay,
and you gotta land it. Andfrankly, the reason it didn't land
it, if I could for justa moment, is because it's there.

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There's too much going on. Igot a comic buddy, like a professional
comic friend. And the thing thathe told me that comics will sit there
and do is whittle a joke right, and you want you want to be
able to get to the setup andthen into the punchline as clearly, quickly
and concisely as possible, with onlythe things that are important to it.

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So even though some comics like Chappelletells really long jokes, but it's all
meat in there, you know whatI'm saying. So he said that you
sit there and you're always trying tofind a way to work it so it's
as smooth and pops and as conciseas pop. That makes sense. Nor
mc donald was really good at thattoo. Yes, yes, and good
comics are very good at that.I'm not saying that Joe Biden's a comic.

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I'm just saying that if you're gonnago with it. The concept holds
true. In my friend group growingup, we had one of the one
of our one of our bros.His name was Morgan. Okay, big
m little Organ. He he thatwas. That was the inside insult joke

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for probably still is he still lives. I think he still lives in our
hometown, and I know some ofthe other dudes do. So I got
to think that even his forty somethingyear old adults when he's in the DJs,
which is the grocery store there.He's just trying to pick out the
you know what soup he wants,and all of a sudden he hears Chris
or Darren OLLI hey, big bigm little Lorgan, how you doing?

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See you quick, punchy concise Andit accomplishes the mission there and and don't
get me wrong, then he giveit right back. So but he just
didn't get it done. Now,I will say this because there's another cut
where people are like, ah,look at this guy, and it was
another Ron Burgundy incident prior to that, prior to that interview airing. He's

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up in Green Bay, Wisconsin oris he just in Green Bay or he
was in Wisconsin. I think hewas in Green Bay, but anyway,
and he's doing the smart politician thing. If you're a politician in the state
of Wisconsin and and you invoke packersin there, that's probably gonna go well
for you, unless it's like youknow, boot packers, right. So

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I can't tell you the number ofserious adult politicians running for governor. This
is when I lived in Minnesota.So you've seen all the Wisconsin stuff too,
because you know you're right on theborder there, and like the number
of grown ass adults who would showup to like political events with those cheese
heads on. But it works there, it works. This doesn't work.

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My theology professor at the Catholic schoolI went to was a guy named Riley,
last name, and he had beendrafted by the Green Bay Packers.
All right, so you hear whathe said there, And the assertion is
that he clearly read a teleprompter thatsaid Riley and then last name. And

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I guess what they think is thetheory is is that it was a placeholder,
which it would be on him forreading it, but also his staff
for not figuring out the name andthe and or. And this is how
I heard it, he says,and listening, I'll let you listen to
it again, he says, Rileylast name. Do I thought maybe he

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was indicating, he was clarifying thatbecause Riley could be both first and last
name, that it was a lastname. That's the benefit of the doubt
on this. Hold on, that'sthe that's the d joke. Here we
go. My theology professor at theCatholic school I went to was a guy
named Riley last name, and hehad been by the Green Bay Packers.

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All right, so and so it'slike Riley Kama last name, Like that's
his last name? Oh well,I that or he he threw it in
because there is a little pause there, like he went mildly off script because
he said Riley and then he realized, oh, that's I got to tell
people that's his last name, whichis how you would address like to this

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day if I asked you, what'swho's your favorite high school teacher that you
had? Or mister Howard, Okay, what's his first name? I have
no idea exactly. I I guessI know John John? Is it John?
Yeah? I had to scrap myMister Bader was probably my favorite,
and it's Jim mad But I onlyknew that because his dad was the auctioneer

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uh forever when I was a kid, and uh for all of the livestock
stuff and and then. But hewas also a really good teacher. But
that's how you refer to it lastname. So I maybe he was clarifying.
I don't know, I'm not I'mnot gonna People were going pretty savage
on that. I think the CNNstuff is far far tougher to explain what's

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going on? And feel good aboutsome of the some of the reactions,
even from never Trump vers. It'spretty crazy of a scene online, but
who knows, Maybe they're all bots. I don't know. And then one
more, this time over on MSNBC. Has not enough damage done on CNN?
And what about Joe Biden confronting DonaldTrump, either on the debate stage

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or on a number of issues.Will he be mentioning him by name?
Will the campaign be going after Trumpon a regular basis to try and draw
that contrast? Is that necessary?No? I think absolutely it is,
Mika. And look, President Bidenhas made it very clear he will be
debating Donald Trump. Okay, allright, so this is yeah, you

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have surrogates on there, it's notBiden. But are we still going with
this? If that still can continuesto be the campaign's positions, because like,
one side of me really wants tosee that, but the other one
is I'm in that elder abuse stageand I don't know, I know,
I'm soft whatever. But yeah,pretty crazy day and we haven't even got

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to the protesters. We'll give youthe update coming up KCO Day radio program.
We may realize if you head overto the social media that everybody's mad
at Apple and Microsoft, but fordifferent reasons. So I'm like, why
are these two tries? I thoughtthey gotten to beef, to be honest
with you, but it was.And we'll get into more of this as

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we enter our number three because StephenKent, our NERD correspondent, he'll be
with us. But I'll give youwhy they're mad. Okay, So let's
start with Apple. So Apple yesterdayreleased their latest commercial and it is for
their brand new super duper iPad uhand it's the the new it'll be the

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newest pro but this one has alaptop processor in it, and it has
their there. It was at theirM four I think is their their big
boy there and and yet the thingis as light and thin as you've ever
seen. And I like this stuff. There's a couple tech reviewers online that

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i'll generally watch stuff by, andit's Marquis Brownlee and a guy who's a
British dude, but he goes bymister who's the boss, and I think
he does. I think he does. Between those two, there's there's some
really good stuff there. And Iwatched both the reviews of this thing yesterday
I had not seen the commercial,just kind of clips of it, you
know, that was smattered in withsome news coverage. But I I saw

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what the gist of the commercial was. In fact, I'm gonna start running
it under me because there's only herbageat the end, and then I'll explain
what you're listening to. And sowhat you see as you see like this,
you feel like an industrial crusher,and you see a stall of musical
instrument, you see jars of paint, you see a metronome. You see

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objects that are meant to represent digitalthings that can be accomplished, whether it
is editing music right and his instruments, paint for the for graphic artist stuff,
and the metrom obviously on the musicside. There's a few other things,
but this is the crux of theiradvertising. Listen to the tag on

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this. You'll probably explain it.Here we go on the most powerful I,
however, is also the finist Allall right, that's it. That's
all the herbage there. Now.People are are super mad over this.

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And what's even funnier is in Japan, the whole country's mad at Apple.
If you are to believe literally,there's literally some uh some elected officials over
there because and I guess I don'tknow there was a it's a cultural slight
of some sort. In fact,I have to read it to you because
I I didn't know that. I'vebeen to Japan, but I never attempted

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to crush musical instruments. And thenothers are just approaching it from the uh,
how do I? How do Isay this? They like they're like
their craft is being insulted, whichI don't know. Some people paint digitally
and some people sit there with,you know, a paintbrush. Some people

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make music purely digitally, others usethe common nation of the two. And
then you know, you're always goingto have your guys that want to do
it on reel to reel, whatevermay, whatever floats your boat. But
the point that they're wanting to makeis all of these things will be able

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to be accomplished because we're but we'recrushing it down to size. And now
you have this pad, which whenI watch the reviews, both reviewers their
biggest surprise was how light this thingis and how thin this thing is.
And for if you're somebody like mewho when I'm traveling in my backpack,

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which is going to be my youknow, under the seat in front of
you thing or in the overhead orwhatever that will generally have what is a
pretty small lat Lenovo laptop, whichare company laptops. I've I've had much
heavier laptops, but it's not asuper duper thin just your standard kind of
think pad. I have an iPadAir two. Yeah, yeah, that's

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that thing's like a decade or plusold. I think still works. And
you know iPhone and those those toothwell, I guess the two things there
they account for the majority of theweight that's in that backpack. I mean
it's noticeable with those so Apple wantingto go hey, not only do you

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not need? Oh? And thenthere was also desktop computers and laptops in
the crusher there, like you getthe message that they're sending. Yet everyone's
po because they think that they're insultingtheir artistry or something. And then Japan
it has to do with the musicalinstruments, like I don't understand any of
it. Ross do you do youwant to go burn Apple's headquarters like some

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of these idiots on Twitter or what? Because I don't know, man,
I don't get it. We canget some calls on this, but I
I guess maybe just need something tobe bad about today. Now we're gonna
we'll chat with Stephen Ken about that. And then the Microsoft thing is I

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know less about that, but becauseI I really hadn't. I'm not familiar
with the game studios. But Microsoftalso was taking the vitriol of Twitter and
some other corners of the internet becausethey were acquiring and they've been trying to
do this for a long time.They're acquiring video game studios, small independent

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studios right and rolling it into theirvideo game side. Because you know Microsoft
has Xbox, right, and theytried to do with little ones, but
they've done it. They tried todo with big ones like Activision Blizzard,
which you know had that was literallybeing reviewed at the but the federal level.
And when they acquire them, you'regonna be shocked to learn this.

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They will roll them into their programand if there is redundancy, then there
will no longer be redundancy. Doyou understand what I'm saying? It is
It's not something that Microsoft just cameup with. It's literally how businesses work.

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And look, it is that alwaysa good thing? Well, it
depends who you are if you're somebodywho's redundant, or more importantly, if
you are someone or a division ofsomething that is always in the red,
is not a profitable sector of it, and you have a new set of

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eyes on your books, try tofigure out, Okay, how are we
going to structure this within our company? That's not good for you? And
it may be not your fault atall, but that's the reality of it.
And then it was it just turnedinto this giant attack on capitalism again.
I keep seeing more more things onTwitter and social media where when I

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see it, I feel more andmore like the guy and the memes standing
up in the meeting. Yes,well, they're like, oh my god,
can you believe Microsoft laid off theseworkers and got rid of these studios,
and you know these studios that haven'tyou know they produce these great games
like Prey and Dishonored, which arelike eight years old, and I am
actually I was surprised that I haveheard. Yeah those games, they're yeah,

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they're good games. I just downloadedthe Prey game the other day.
I'm by playing to playing it.But like I said, your examples of
great games they've made are eight toa decade year old, right, right,
and you need to produce. Andit's like, I'm like, well,
what is the drama here, Like, well, they're laying off workers
in these studios. First off,these workers have gone on to other studios.
They're they're moving a lot of theminto different areas of their companies,

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so they're not exactly all laid off. But you have these communists in this
bubble on x slash Twitter that arelike, can you this is the problem
with capitalism is you know, thisis a creative medium and you're firing these
creative people. It's not about profit, it's about creating art. And I'm
like, I'm sorry, welcome toRealville. It's a business and it's exactly

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about producing and making money. Andby the way, so I feel like
the guy's standing a year. Yeah, every year there's some independent, never
heard of studio that comes out,puts a game out and where it's like
because it's like five guys passion rightnow, they're one of these studios.
So but I feel more and morelike the guy in the meme because I'm
reading all this stuff and I'm like, I don't care. I don't care
about any of it now, I'mstarting to see some pushback on social media

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from people that are like, yeah, I don't care either. This is
how the real world works, andyou've got to deal with it, you
little baby communist. But then thesesame people are like, oh, well,
to show that we are against Microsoft, we all need to canceall our
game pass accounts. We need aboycout. So you're you're saying your solution
to show solidarity with the workers thathave been fired or these studios that have

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been they're gone, don't do itis can your game pass account, which
is going to cost more people theirjobs, as if you're a moron and
you don't know what you're talking about. That's true. Oh man, it's
always that come on, dude,how long you've been doing so dumb solution
like everyone needs twenty dollars fast foodsalaries in California. Yeah, that'll do

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it. What happened. But Ilove it like it goes back, you
know, the like rock Star.This was another game outrage that I remember
when Rockstar came out with Red DeadRedemption two, in my opinion, the
greatest game ever made. There isa big outcry for people saying, yeah,
but you know, the the thedevs and the workers had to put
an extra hour what they call inthe game industry crunch time. They're all
putting in like one hundred and twentyhours a week or something stupid, and

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can you believe it, I'm notgoing to buy the game. And once
again it was a guy in thememe standing up in the meeting going,
I don't care. I don't carewhere the game comes from. You they
were using those workers. That whatyou're saying. They were paying the workers
and they were doing they they werethere on their own accord, right,
But yeah, worst case scenario comesout and they find out, hey,
this game was produced by slave laborin China. I don't care. I

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don't care. I just don't.I am playing my game, and if
it's a good game, I'm gonnaplay the game. If it's a bad
game, I'm not going to playthe game. I don't. I don't
care. I'm not more and morechild slavely more and more. I don't
care. I just don't care.It's all. The solution is always like
immediately recognizable to people with two braincells to rub together that it will have

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a negative effect. It will literallyhave a negative effect. It is wholly
predictable, and yet every damn time, and I they know, but they
realize if we if we march around, cry baby, block traffic and throw
stuff on people disagree with us,and then we get our way, if

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it does have that impact that weknow it's going to have, then we
have another reason to march around andthrow stuff at people and whine and cry
about it like it's in a way, it's like they're recognizing that to maintain
their industry, decisions have to bemade. If you want to get as
deep as that. Maybe they don'tthink of it as that deep, but

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that's the net effect of what's goingon. But it also shows, and
you know this, that social mediaTwitter is not real life. No,
it's a bubble. These people areliving in a bubble because if you go
when you talk to the average gamer, go down to the water cooler,
those still exist at your workplace,in the kitchen whatever, or knocking so
you know, random gamer's door,and if they happen to open and not

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shoot you in the face and havea conversation with them, you're like,
can you believe Microsoft shut down arcane? What is don't even know what the
name of the studio Arcane, whateverthe studio is, or they shut down
the creators of Hi Fi Rush thatstudios. The average gamer is gonna be
like, who what are you talkingabout? To your point too, they
shut down the projects within that company, and many of those devs are now

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literally working on games in other capacity. Well, like I said, they
move them around within the cometro bussoff. Yeah, welcome to the real world.
This happens in every industry. Ifyou don't produce right, you're not
going to be around for a longtime. It's one of what I can
think of, except if you workfor government. If you're in the government,
you know what you just do?You just solved it. We get

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rid of all these game studios,one massive government game studio. Huh,
that'd be great. It reminds meof that quote in Ghostbusters, the original
Ghostbusters where they lose their job atthe college, and I think it's Dan
Aykroyd. It's like, oh mygod, we're going to have to go
into the We have to produce theprivate sector now, and it's different.
Those people expect results. Yeah,it's a great that's such a great line
in that movie. Well, andit's not like they weren't in the private

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sector. But no, no,no, my problem solves all of that
one massive game studio gov dot GOV. I think Russia didn't Russia recently say
they were going to do that.They were going to start creating their own
video games because they felt like thegames coming out were propaganda for the game.
Well no, no, no,because now you're talking they wanted to
create their own propaganda, right right, Well, and that's but here's but

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they didn't say they were going toshut down all the other ones in my
plan, and they seize the meansof productions. Right, Commies are happy,
right solidarity. Can you imagine howawesome those games would be and it
would just be like it would yourcharacter would literally it would just be one
big struggle session. To be fair, a lot of these woke developers,
right, would probably fit in withthe government over video game because it'd be

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like, oh, this is perfect. We can already do all this vanilla
bland, PC bull crap. We'revery good at producing that. And like,
here's the other thing too. Eventhough it's government, it would be
a government one and we can makeall the jokes in the world. I
think they'd still be able to churnout a Diablo sequel in less than twelve
years, so you know, mightbe that's a good point. Yeah,

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dude. Here's the other thing too, the Democrats in charge. I don't
think they would make I don't thinkthey'd make any changes to Grand Theft Auto,
except that you could kill more copsand maybe even some some Jewish missions
with the current crop of leaders.So because Mayhem is the name of the
game with the ruling class right now, so I think that would fit in.

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But good lord man, all right, well we'll get into I got
pretty we got pretty deep into that. Oh, just one thing on the
Apple thing. Here's the other problemwith your Apple. You got like high
expectations when you put a commercial outbecause Apple. If you ever look at
a list of the top fifty adsof all time, n of them will

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have Apple's nineteen eighty four ad eitherat the top or right there. And
if you don't remember that, that'sthe one where they're all sitting in the
you know, this dystopic futuristic theaterstaring at a screen, you know,
obey, and there's some you know, it's it's every v for Vendetta looking
kind of thing, and then thiswoman in athletic gear runs in and spins

(31:55):
a hammer through the screen. Nowit looks old, but it was groundbreaking
at the time, so they alwaysput that right. So and then their
iPod ads over the years have beenhave been very very famously followed like if
your song appears on there, nowyou're a star kind of stuff. So

(32:16):
if you want to judge it bythat ads is kind of stupid, fine,
but calm down, people to quoteRoss, I don't care. So
anyway, six fifty one, hangon CODA Radio program our number two we'll
do in one hour. We'll haveStephen Kent, our NERD correspondent join us.

(32:38):
We got what more woke Star Warsstuff. We'll get into the Apple,
Microsoft stuff, few other things.So make sure you're here in one
hour. In fact, I'm orderingyou to stick around for the next two
hours. Okay, all right,very good. So where do we even
start here, Well, let melet me start with this. So uh

(33:00):
this, I was reading this thismorning. Oh even picture of that thing?
Yeah, buddy, all right,So Raleigh Animal Control uh said that
they had to go wrangle a fivefoot iguana. And it's not the first
one this year, but it isthe biggest holy cow. Uh. Lieutenant

(33:22):
Jason Burreno said this and this isthe part kind of raised my eyebrows said.
The missing animal most likely belonged toa traveler who was coming through the
area. Officials believe the iguana somehowgot out of a vehicle. I'm curious
to know why you think that.It's because nobody called about their loss iguana.
Maybe they didn't know anybody missing aniguana. Oh my god, is

(33:45):
that little iggy? Well yeah,I wouldn't say he's little. I mean
that thing is called oh it's likewhat do you call it? That guy
time because he used to be littleas a bait, a little iggy.
Well, yeah, this is myiguana, little iggy? Is it like
is it like kind of like scallyin the back sort of? Uh a

(34:07):
picture? Yeah? Did your iguanahave a really long tail? Like?
Like so it's not in the frameanymore. I mean it depends on the
angle. Does he have sharp claws? His yess on his feet? There

(34:28):
is he a greenish color? You'reyou're boss pens in the season, does
it? I think you're thinking ofchameleons right anyway? All right, well,
are you doubting my story? I'mjust if you want to eat it
or put it in a terrarium likethe weirdos with the snakes, which,
by the way, speaking of snakes, this is a bigger deal because after

(34:52):
what after zebra, cobra and sanity, you all remember that, like can
you I don't can you order?Or can you own a big iguana?
But I'm curious why I think itwas. I think maybe because nobody reported,
or maybe and they don't say thelocation. They they actually found it,
where we located it. Why areyou being secretive of where you locate

(35:14):
where we located it. We believewhomever had it was traveling and somehow it
was released. Was it that likeis it of the sheets by was it
the sheets by the airport? Thatwould raise more questions because I don't know,
man, but that's what they're saying. So it has to be location
or they just think since nobody called, but they took it over the Wildlife

(35:38):
Rehabilitation Center of North Carolina, sothey'll deal with it. So that's where
you gotta go. Pick up alittle iggy? Is it little with tease
or little like he's a round lI l with the apostrophe? Okay,
all right there we go, sothat mystery solved. On to the next

(36:00):
mystery, a mystery of who theythink their target audience for this is what
is? Let me, guys,let me ask you guys something, and
I want you to I want youto view this through the eyes of like
a ten year eight to ten yearold boy. What's the coolest gift?

(36:24):
Not nowadays, but let's go backwhen I you know, late eighties early
nineties would be the period for me. I guess late eighties because I was
born in eighty What would be thejust about the coolest damn gift you could
get? In there? Ross didyou have? Did you have, like
a really thing that you really reallywanted? I mean other than the video

(36:46):
game stuff? I mean because thatobviously was right around that time, because
the only stuff besides video games therewas a thing, like I mentioned this
before for Christmas, I wanted stufffrom the army surplus store. Yes,
like helmets and shovels and pickaxe anda gas mask and like an army utility
belt and all that kind of stuff. What is wrong with you? I

(37:07):
don't know. It was super coolthough, Yeah, how about a Swiss
army knife. Hmmm? Will thatbe Do you want you have one of
those? Did you want? Inever asked for one, but I do
have a Swiss Army knife. Story. Okay, you didn't have one,
but you have a Okay, Iwas. I was working at the World
of Science. Uh huh and uhthat was in the back room and I

(37:28):
was, you know, putting stuffaway and as you do. And I,
you know, it was a SwissArmy knife, and I said,
look at this thing. This isamazing. I took it out of the
box and it was just looking atit. I opened up the blade and
I, for some reason, Iwanted to see how sharp the blade was,
so I, you know, justbriefly rubbed it against my thumb,

(37:49):
because up to that point every SwissArmy knife had seen had been older and
duller. This thing went through.I didn't even feel it. It went
like I remember looking at it goingthat's weird. Didn't even feel went right
through my thumb like a knife throughbutter. And my thumb starts bleeding like
a spickett all over the stock room. And there's these ancient world the World
of Science, in the back ofNew York all but in New York.

(38:10):
So it just starts bleeding all overthese fossils we had just unwrapped, and
we're getting ready like these like,hey, this is an old bronosaur's foot,
or this is a t rex whateverthe hell it is, and it's
lasting, but yeah, it's lastedmillions of years. And then I destroyed
it because my with the blood comingout of my thumb from the stupid Swiss

(38:30):
army knife. So I'm in apanic and I'm like, I don't know
what to do now, and I'mjust looking at this blood come out of
my thumb, and I wrap upmy arm my thumb with the newspaper that
the fossils had been wrapped up inbefore I unwrapped them. So I walk
out of the stock room and Iremember, I think her name was Kathy.
She was the manager there, andshe looked at it. She was

(38:52):
like, oh my god, didyou murder someone? And I'm like,
I need to go to the emergencyroom, and so I go there.
I still have I can look athe right now. This is where the
you know, where the stitches wereput into my thumb. Oh. And
I got a call shortly thereafter sayingthat I was no longer needed at the
World of science because I destroyed thefossils with the blood coming out of my
thumb from playing with the Swiss Armyknife. Oh that's lazy. You know

(39:12):
what you guys could have just dude, can you imagine? Let me,
let me, let me. Ididn't just spin it. You gotta spin
it. No, forget the knifething with the fossils. Somebody wants to
come in and they're looking at thewhy is their blood? And you're like,
well, what happened? What happenedhere before the t rex fell in
the tar he ate it? Yes, yeah, so this is a one
of a kind, right, soand then charge three times and then if

(39:34):
it works, you'd probably be backthere asking you to blood up all the
rest of the five. I evenasked. I'm like, can I have
the Swiss Army knife because you can'tsell that now because they coated in my
blood? Since sinna, can Iat least have that? And they're like,
no, dude, I'm telling youman, uh I Swiss Army Knight.
Now. I know it's that peopleare gonna call and they're like,
oh, this is better, thisis better. No, when you're eight,
you don't know, like you justsee a Swiss army knife. You

(39:54):
see all the crap that can do. That was exciting, man, So
I had I went through a fewof them. And then obviously when you
get older, a lot of peoplegot into the leatherman phase. Same concept.
But you know, the pliers arenice, and there's all sorts of
multi tools out there. And sowhy am I bringing this up? Because
Carl Elsner the CEO of the parentcompany, Victory Knox. I can I

(40:22):
just realize. I don't know howto say the name of that company,
but anyway, the parent company areworking on new Swiss army knives. Now
they do some stuff. There's theymake a product for golfers. Does it
have a blade on it? Ihave one of my golf bag because I

(40:42):
got it. I got it ata tournament. It was one of the
packaged deals. I don't know.I just rode in my golf bag.
But I have another tool that Iuse that and then my driver has I
don't know why when we had tostart carrying all these tools in our golf
bags what we do, and butI can't remember if it has a blade,
I would assume it did. Itwould my other thing, my other
multi tool that I have in theredoes have a blade, and I do

(41:05):
use it. I use it forbecause I like to. I wrap my
fingers a couple of my fingers becauseof my grip. If not, it'll
be a problem. And I'll usethat just to quick cut the tape.
But uh, they're gonna get ridof the blade and the Swiss army knife.
Gotta get rid of that blade.Okay. You see, at no

(41:29):
point during my episode was I like, they need to ban this item or
stop selling the item. My Myreaction was, I'm an idiot, and
why did I do that? Well, I was gonna here's what I'm gonna
tell you. Man. No,you know what. It's kind of your
bad, but it's innate. Idon't know of I don't Why is it
that men, and I'm fully guiltyof this, have this incessant need to

(41:52):
when we're handed a knife for thefirst time, rub our finger across it
to check it. Now, youcan do it without murdering yourself. No
like examples. But when I gotmy dad's get it when it can't help
it. No, my dad passedaway and they got his k bar from
Vietnam. Right, first thing youdid? Right? But but I was
I was more cautious because I wasaware that it was a combat knight that

(42:13):
was used in Vietnam right during theTet offensive. Like I was like,
you know, so I did Iput my you know, thomb I wanted
to see how sharp it was.With the thing of the stupid world of
science, I never expected this littleknife to be that sharp, right,
absolutely, and it was super sharpand and the like the holding an edge
on those generic Swiss Army knight,it's not going to do it for a
very long time, but you hitit right out of the box, so

(42:36):
you know, uh a for effortthere. But yeah, like the amount
of time that I myself will findmyself touching them. But there's no reason
to touch the blade unless I'm ina position where I ate is mine and
I may want to sharpen it.And yet then there's other ways to go
about that. But whatever, Idon't know. It's not your fault,
is what I'm saying. It's natureand I don't know why, because it

(42:58):
doesn't seem like a productive innate qualityin any way, shape or form,
because it abuses injury. But letme get back to this now, does
that mean that all models of theSwiss Army knife. Are they're going to
remove the blades? No, okay, but the main products that you know,

(43:20):
the big ones, those are theones that are going to address first.
And then they say that they willhave they will continue to produce a
line of bladed models. So whichsounds fine until you start hearing them explain
it, like the motivation here,because there's practical motivation, but there's also
clearly some moon bad influence. Here'sthe practical application though they're wrong. The

(43:43):
practical argument is, quote, we'reconcerned about the increasing regulation of knives due
to violence in the world, okay, and then also for travel. All
right, so let me let meaddress both of those. If there's one
thing in a world of quote unquoteknife violence that I have noticed is you're

(44:07):
not really the problem. Like rememberthe video. I remember the the the
Amnesty drop box in the UK wherethey posted all the pictures of the quote
knives people have given up, andthere's like sharpened spoons in there, and
there's some crazy looking knives. Theyhad a wyoming knife in there, which
I thought was funny because I don'tknow that they do a lot of animals

(44:30):
skinning over in the UK. Butbut I don't see a lot of people
running around murdering people with Swiss armyknives. Like most of the blades aren't
even long enough. You could murdersomebody, but you got to hit them
right. Two. Yeah, I'mI actually, I literally this morning when
I saw that, I grabbed.I have a Swiss, you know,

(44:51):
like a regular standard issue Swiss armyknife. I looked at it and I
realized, of the like twenty differentthings on there, nineteen of them aren't
going through TSA even if there's noblade, do you know what I'm saying?
Like the file thing on there,the scissors, the probably that toothpick

(45:12):
I got, the one that's gotthe toothpick in the side, Like,
who the hell knows, dude.My buddy, my buddy at TSA when
we were down and we were travelingin Florida. When I went down to
that heart into the hard rock forthe tobacco cigar thing, I was talking
to one of my buddies and whenhe came in through the airport, he

(45:32):
had toenail clippers, but he hadripped that spinout file off of the toenail
clippers, which I have a pairthat I did that too, too,
And he'd been traveling with him,and the TSA's like, I'm sorry,
sir, you can't have clippers withthe blade. And he's like, well,
there isn't a blade. There's therivet where the blade was, but
there's no blade, and she goes, well, you need to have the

(45:54):
model without the blade. And herealized that this was going to be around
him, round and round uh conversation. So we just gave it to them.
But the rest of the knife ain'tgetting through. But then the other
thing is this also some people wanta multi tool that doesn't have an aura

(46:15):
of violence. This is the boom, bad stuff. It's your name.
Let's let's let's go over this allright. So, yes, knives can
be violent, but knives are alsouseful. Like when I was chopping an
onion last night at dinner, Damnsure, I was very glad that I
had a knife chopping up some garliccan onion. And yes, could I

(46:39):
then turn around and go stab somebody? Sure? But also, if you
just want this this aura of violence, this era of violence or whatever the
quote was, you're it's knife inyour name, and you have the word
army in your name. So ifwe're talking about impressions and how something makes

(46:59):
you feel army and knife and forwhat it is, it's fine, it's
perfect. I guess Swiss. Maybejust car you're just gonna call yourself Swiss
because I guess what is that cheese? Neutral or it used to be neutrality?
Hot? Chocolate? Oh hot?Oh? And the guys with the
big horns too, right? Right? Is that yeah? That's Swiss?

(47:22):
Right, let's see chocolate. Igot some, they got some watchcred and
and the knives and and keep inmind, by the way, this company
that produces a Swiss army knives becauseI used to have one of their backpacks.
They make good quality backpacks. Itwas one of my more recent ones,
but it gave out after quite afew years and I bought another brand.

(47:45):
But yeah, yeah, So ifthat's what you're going for, what
are you doing? Man, don'tscrew it the don't call it a Swiss
army knife and a standard model andnot have a blade in there. Can
you imagine a pod you'd be ifyou were you just grab you know,
they have like twenty of them ondisplay at the sports section of Walmart or
whatever. You just grab one,you get home. There's no knife in

(48:07):
there. What are we even doing? Man? All right? Seven twenty
two. Also, I would saythis, I have a strong I don't
believe that people who would be thissensitive about the name of this iconic product
are also people need multitools because theydon't strike me as the handyman's sort.

(48:28):
So maybe I'm maybe that's unfair,but I don't believe it to be.
So. So there's your cancelation,the knife part. We'll be back.
Flood of email I've gotten. Everyperson listening to the show has multiple scars
from stupid stuff. Hey, man, scars tell stories, and I think
chicks digam. I heard that onetime, which I don't know if it's
true, but maybe some do.But yeah, and a scar isn't always

(48:52):
because you did something stupid. Youcan have a surgical scar you didn't do
anything. Somebody hit you in anaccident that's not your fault. But the
ones we prize most generally have apretty good story with them, like Ross
literally bleeding all over a t Rexfrom millions of years ago. That's a

(49:13):
good one. That's a good one. I think. Let's see what my
most prominent scars are my wrist onmy left hand when I tried to jump
a motorcycle when I was ten andthe bone actually came out, So that's
fun. And but on that verysame hand, on the left saw on
the pointer finger on my left hand, that's where a cutting saw like a

(49:36):
handheld, you know, like you'recutting lumber building. I was literally were
building a deck and I was cuttinglumber, and I took the saw even
though I'm right handed, so Ihad released the button and I tried to
spin the saw like a pistol,you know, like an old West gun
fighter. Well at the same timetrying to brace it and grab it with

(49:58):
my left hand, and at thatmoment, my right finger hit the on
switch and right through the I meannot obviously threw through it, but you
had a wicked scar. And Ididn't even go get treatment. I wrapped
it in electrical tape with some someglue, and I remember my mom was

(50:20):
horrified when she saw it. Wewere up we were literally camping up the
mountains building this deck on this cabinthat summer, so I thought, wow,
in a few weeks it won't bethere. But no, it was
pretty horrible. But those have stories, man, But dudes doing dumb stuff
with knives that's a tail as oldas time. Jake, what's up by
good morning? Yeah. I didsomething stupid too with the Swiss Army knife.

(50:40):
I got it for Christmas when Iwas eight, and I thought I
was hot stuff. So I decidedto stab a tree or something stupid.
And those knives when they're pulled itout, they also pulled back in that
they have too much pressure on it, so I got my finger open.
So it would be stupid to usethe Swiss Army knife as a weapon in
the first place, more of atool versus the weapon. Well, it's

(51:01):
just, but also the kind ofthe idea that anything within and thank you
for the callers, sir, thatanything in that stack is getting through TSA.
I don't get it. This isbecause like they realize that they can't
have market share in the UK orso I don't I don't know, man,
I don't know, but hey whatever, maybe that's what people want.
And then if I bet, ifI see you with a Swiss Army knife

(51:22):
and no knife, I will Iwill judge you, just so we're clear.
Unless it is clearly another product fromthe company that doesn't have Swiss Army
Knife in the title. All right, fair enough, let's uh, let's
move on to this. So I, by the way, do you believe

(51:45):
that they're actually hunger striking at Princetonfor even for all the the wailing and
crying that we have to hear withtheir daily presser, because they don't strike
me as people who haven't eaten inwhat would be a week and nobody.
You don't really know what they're upto in that little house there either,
Like they could be in there justbanging ho hose down their throat. I

(52:06):
don't know, but I don't thinkthey're mohandas Gandhi surviving on a thin ble
of orange juice for a week.How about the girl to the right of
the speaker holding the other definitely not? Oh you don't think Okay, yeah,
I had the same suspicion. However, we were subjected to this and

(52:30):
listen intently. My favorite part isthe unironic use of the term literally shaking.
But there's lots to chew on.So all right, so here's the
spokes person wearing of course a facemask and having not eaten in a week.
She says, get to the goodstuff. But here is an eye.

(52:59):
We are starting. We are physicallyexhausted. I'm literally shaking right out,
you can see I kind of,but you're also out there drum circling
and you're not literally starving right Cognitively, I don't. I mean, granted,
I feel like there's cognitive issues withmany of these protesters, but like,

(53:22):
you don't strike me as somebody whois unable to formulate sentences. People
who are really, really really nutritionallydeficient. It impairs your ability to do
stuff and you're saying what you wantto say. So if you're literally shaken,

(53:43):
I don't know. And to underby the way, you have to
understand their beef. Their beef isnot why why is the problem is the
university is doing this to us.But their beef is that during their hunger
strike, they expect the university toessentially have a standby medical team provide them
a temperature controlled shelter even when they'reoutside, so some sort of I guess

(54:07):
tent or something, because you know, they if they do a hunger strike
to sit in their dorm room,it doesn't have the impact of them standing
around all day whining about it.But anyway, I'm sorry, continue,
why is it their fault at thetime with that I believe, but I
think that that is uh and sorry, ladies, I think that's a female

(54:29):
thing. Okay, all right,jacket, I don't need a jacket.
Turn the temperature down? Yeah ohyeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah. So
I uh, I don't mean togender you, but you just gendered you.
How's that? Okay? All right? Continue? Wait? Wait,
hold on, you're all immunocompromised inwhat way? I'm not. I'm not

(54:51):
denying that you are, or notsaying that you are or you aren't,
but like you all are, whatelse you've been doing in there university seating
yesterday with some of our bargaining toyou, They would love to continue physically
weakening up because they can't stand asthey go to us murder. Okay,
all right, so they are weakening, They are weakening you. So their

(55:15):
beef, on top of wanting thatstuff, the real beef is why won't
they give in to all of ourdemands? Why are they hurt? Why
are they trying to hurt us?Right? Once again, nobody's making them
do this, if in fact theyeven are doing it. But yeah,
yeah, you know you can.You can stop it even if they don't

(55:35):
meet your demands, right, ifyou feel that there's dire medical consequences ahead,
you can just go you can justgo over to McDonald's. Probably not
if you haven't you literally haven't eatena week. I wouldn't recommend McDonald's.
Maybe something a little easier, butstill it's there, it's right there for
you. I realized I realized loadingthis audio this morning, because you know,
when all it started in the flagat you and see and all that.

(55:58):
Yeah, I was very concerned,like is this a serious threat or
a danger? And as more ofthese videos come out, I don't think
I'm alone here. You realize howlaughable all of this is. And I
don't really believe they pose any threatbecause these are and we've said this going
back now for years, this hasabout any point of ours on the show.
This is a weak, soft,spineless generation that they're not going to

(56:24):
accomplish anything because they don't have thefollow through. I went without eating my
you know, but for a day, and now I'm having hot flashes and
they're not taking care of me,and they're not pampering me, and they're
not listening to us, and shutup, nobody cares that they've become a
joke. Well, here's I willgo with the people in the video.

(56:45):
But what happens too often, andI think this is where concerns lie is
you get the infiltrators, right,who will undercover of your lunacy while everyone's
staring around at the stupidity of thiswoman in her friend and actually cause damage.
They're over there like, uh,you know, let's uh, let's
smash a bunch of stuff, orlet's hit a dude with a with a

(57:06):
milkshake that's actually quick creed in thehead and cause brain bleeding. They're useful
idiots at this point. Yes,So that's where the danger is. I'm
not scared of this check. Which, by the way, if she you
want to test whether if she's sohungry, here's the test. Ask her
where she wants to eat. Ifshe can actually pick a place, then
I'll believe she's hungry. What Iwhat You have to have a litmus test,

(57:34):
right. If she immediately goes let'sgo here, I'm like, Wow,
she is hungry. But if shegoes starts himming and haunts she's like,
I want burgers, You're like,or I want burgers. You're like,
all right, Well, here's nineburger places. That are easily accessible.
I don't want any of those.I don't believe you. The more
days go go on, it goesbeyond parody. Right, Well, well

(57:55):
I haven't, dude. I'm onlyby the way, I am only one
order of the way through this idiot'saudio. One quarter. I'm gonna finish
this first cut and then we're gonnatalk to Ray. But let's just let's
continue. I was here. Itruly do not feel like I'm doing anything

(58:17):
special. This is my choice,and I would not spend my birthday doing
anything other than seeing here and standinghis solidarity with you. Ale, How
did by the way, how doessomebody not roll the cake in like in
the movie Godfather? How if Iwould do look at this delicious double funge

(58:38):
cakes Ross and I would come inwith a cake on a cart and I
would rush show everyone the cake showwe won the cake, right like like
that Cuba. Yeah, yeah,don't cut the cake until everybody see it.
I give it the cake, allright, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I was or set up on oneof those little tailgate grills. What

(58:59):
are you doing as a pupil?And all right yeah yeah yeah, drum
circle. Wait for the rest ofthis lunacy, but first weather lunacy with
a race aging from the weather channel. Man, how you doing, Yeah,
we're doing all right. Rough dayfor some yesterday, especially Charlotte points

(59:20):
west. Yeah, numerous reports ofa wind in, trees down and power
still out. Did you see theby the way, I'm sorry to speaking
of those. Did you see thelawn Did you see the lawnmower picture?
I did not this this it wasit was. It was near I can'member
one of one of the smaller townshere, Charlotte, and in the picture
of riding John Deere mower, likea standard yard one, and it's in

(59:45):
it's it's literally looks like it's beendeposited and just smashed. But it's in
a parking lot and all the vehicleslook fine. So it's like somethings God
had beef with that lawnmower. Dude. It was interesting photo. Yeah,
all numerous reports of damage on Ithink there's it's close to eighty something thousand

(01:00:07):
customers across the state without power,and most of those are west and southwest,
down south of even Asheville and outnear a bunkhom County or Bunkham County
where Ashville resides southwest of that inMecklenburg County, Gaston County around there,
where they had very strong winds.Don't see any tornado reports officially yet,

(01:00:30):
but there were reports of some sceneof potential tornado. The threat today is
limited showers around town now more tothe west, and stronger storms. The
guidance is saying the weekend and asthey approach. But I will be surprised,
especially from the Triad west this morningthrough about midday, if we get
a stronger storm. But I reallythink most of this is going to be

(01:00:51):
over with lunchtime or earlier cloudy thesatterdude could climb to the blow to mid
eighties. I'm not quite sure we'llget that mild tonight. We're going to
drop back into the sixties, maybenear sixty degrees by tomorrow morning and maybe
a shower thunder shower tomorrow afternoon withclouds and sunshine. And the weekend there's
still going to be pretty decent.We have thrown a slight chance of a
shower in Saturday. I really don'tsee much rain at all Sunday, clouds

(01:01:15):
otherwise low seventies, sunny on Mother'sDay. On Sunday, mid seventies,
overnight lows in the upper forties tolow fifties. So certainly looking like some
better weather ahead as we had twoon the weekend. All right, thank
you, sir, appreciate it.All right, Racey staging from the Weather
Channel. Everyone's trying to outdo mycake. Let me explain why my cake
torture would be the best, becauseyou're missing you're missing a big issue here.

(01:01:38):
It's not just because it's you know, Godfather reference. In that scenario,
the person giving them the cake wouldbe a hymen rough and they may
they it might not click with thembecause they probably didn't watch Godfather because they
had the word God in it.He always made money for his partners.

(01:01:59):
Though. Yeah, I think that'sone of their beefs. Like that's good
that they chant because they have theUh did you see them? What did
they call? They were calling itlike they had like the money jew or
something. Dude, it's all it'sall the stereotypical stuff they had, like
this this mannequin dressed and it wasliterally the characterture stuff that you saw in

(01:02:22):
the papers. Yeah in Germany,right, Like here's a cartoon and they
were doing that for real. Soyou know, can help. That's why
they didn't want the bagels brought tothem. Yes, it's awful. So
a guy doing a hymen Roth voicebringing you your birthday cake at your hunger
strike, I feel like that cuts, Like that cuts more than a brand
new Swiss army knife at Ross's job. We'll be right back. Somebody's getting

(01:02:45):
an uber NERD tech with me onstuff. Well, luckily we got a
nerd correspondent coming up, sir,So we will get into the Apple stuff
and the Star Wars stuff and justa few other things with Stephen Kent,
who will join us here in abouteleven twelve minutes. All right, let
me get back to the chick who'sliterally shaking and both hot and cold at

(01:03:09):
the same time, which now I'mgoing to assume her gender. But anyway,
back to the bullhorn, back tothe hunger strike. Let's do this
us as strikers. You will continueto starve until they meet our demands.
Okay. In addition, I wouldlike to note that the administration is also

(01:03:31):
lying to the media. Oh no, to the shame the media. They
have announced that they have been consistentlysending their own doctors to come to our
area and monitor us hunger strikers,and monitor our health. This is a
lie. They are not They arenot monitoring our health. They are not

(01:03:57):
keeping track of our vitals. Theyare not at all taking care of us
in any regard. They have onlysent a spokesperson from UHS twice to give
us informational pamphlets. But they arenot at all at all taking care of
us in any regard. And Iwant to make that very clear that they

(01:04:18):
are not caring for us, thatthey do not care for us, and
they are yeah, okay, allright, they're big, big poopy lars.
Got it. You realize that youspeaking right now is not the only
thing on video, right, ma'am. But I don't know if you know
basically every second of every minute,even though people are wearing masks and you

(01:04:40):
know, slapping phones at like somebody'srecording it. Okay, And when you
all first started this, you gotmad over a doctor attempting to communicate with
you, not a person with pamphlets, a doctor, And I saw the

(01:05:00):
doctor's last name, and some peoplethink that might have been part of your
beef. You get what I'm drivingat. So I'm not sure one hundred
percent would happened, but I rememberthat, or the doctor could be coming
in and looking at him, going, you guys are in any danger at
all? You're fine? Yeah,or well you're not fine obviously, but

(01:05:21):
well I mean mentally sure. Yeah, they're like, I am not the
kind of doctor you need. Here'smy But maybe that's not like you know,
maybe she's not realizing that, likeyou know, the reason the doctors
aren't having you to take your vitalsis you're absolutely fine. There's something wrong
with you again? Does that looklike someone from who hasn't eaten in a
week? Think about the mental acuitydrop off if you're supretty hydrated, right

(01:05:45):
or you haven't eaten. There's areason hangry is a thing. Because it
is a thing. It is theCaCO DA Radio program Phone number eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight sevenfour. But hold on to those thoughts,
those calls, because we're going towelcome in our official nerd politics entertainment

(01:06:09):
in the intersection thereof Stephen Kent,our go to guy on this Steven,
How are you doing this morning,Casey? I was doing fine until Comcast
Exfinity texted me just a few minutesago saying that they're doing more service in
my neighborhood today, and I couldhave another day of internet outages from nine

(01:06:30):
to five. So if I loseyou, that's why, Casey, They're
out to get us. Wait,how would you lose? Are you?
Are you calling? Are you skypingor something? I'm a professional, Casey.
I do this from my office ona hard line with a beautiful Joe
Rogan Schure microphone connected to the Internet. Yeah. Phones are old school,

(01:06:51):
dude. Every guest was like you, I swear the amount of members of
Congress who I assume have placed acell phone on the far side of their
death to talk to me is maddeningin the world of radio. But that's
another thing for another day. Let'sget on. I woke up this morning
to as I normally do, sleepout of the eyes, you know,

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o dark for something in the morning. And I'm sitting there like, and
one of the first things I dois I I got an iPad that's just
next to my desk or's next tomy bed, uh, and I will
clip that open. I'm like,all right, what insane thing happened overnight?
And Twitter trends is generally one ofthe first things I look at and
I'm like, why does everyway?So everyone's mad at Apple and Microsoft?

(01:07:35):
What is going on? Was youriPad? Was your iPad made with the
bones and the innards of retro recordplayers and pianos and metronome I hope so
because I think I'm gonna I'm gonna. I'm gonna not defend this. I
think it's dumb, but so soI to get into it. And I

(01:07:59):
had not see let's start with Apple, I had not seen the commercial.
However, I when there's something techie, do you know? Obviously you know
who Marquis Brownlee and uh, misterwho, mister Who's the boss? Right?
You know those YouTube accounts. They'retech guys, right, the two
of the biggest tech guys out there. And I like their I like their
reviews. I also like how lastweek they said that Brownlee was trying to

(01:08:21):
sink companies because they produced bad AIproducts. But that's another thing, and
they had reviews. The British dudewas he was infatuated with this thing,
and Brownlee was complimentary. And Ilike Apple products. I'm not gonna pay
thirty six hundred dollars for a padand my iPad is an Air two,
which is like a decade old,but it works. And but people's beef

(01:08:45):
was in an effort to market adevice that is is way more advanced than
any other pad they've ever put out. It's way lighter, it's thinner,
and it has a the processing powerof a laptop with their new incredible Yeah,
it is an incredible thing. Andthat bridging that gap and finding a

(01:09:10):
the an iPad. Remember when itused to be, hey, let's get
a laptop that can do desktop stuff. That'll be amazing when it is well,
yeah, I mean I remember thosedays. And I mean all this
goes back to this this iPad debut. There there crush ad that came out
just two days ago. So youknow, this ad for anybody who hasn't
seen it, has gotten like ahuge reaction, at least online where everything

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gets a huge reaction. And thead depicts beautiful retro devices like record players,
an arcade machine, a guitar,piano. Yeah, paint all that
stuff being crushed by an industrial liketrash compactor Star Wars style and mashed into

(01:09:53):
what is the new iPad. Andthis has triggered, like you know,
a disgust response and some people becausethey just really hate seeing these kind of
beautiful devices annihilated for technology, andthen you know, some people think it's
super cool. I'm curious what sideyou're on, because it actually triggered my
discuss response and I wasn't prepared forit. All right, I'll say this,

(01:10:15):
I one hundred percent get what they'retrying to say. And because it
is to justify the purchase price,your sole marketing endeavor needs to be able
to convince high end users, right, people who are running things like Final
cut Pro, which I watch.Yes, these two tech guys run on
there, and it looked with thekey pet with the magic keyboard attached,

(01:10:41):
it looked like there was no functionalitydifference between what you can now run in
an iPad and as somebody who hastried to edit, who has to edit
stuff over the years, it's allthere's always been this big divide in editors
in a pad or within an iOS. And you know something you're gonna run
on a den so incredible, Yes, selling me or something I'm not gonna

(01:11:04):
pay thirty six hundred dollars, butselling somebody who can justify that because of
what they do on the fact thatthis can this can do it is the
challenge and so demonstrating all these thingsand making that claim and then being able
to back it up, well,that will be the success or downfall of
this product. So I get themessaging, but where it got weird for

(01:11:25):
me? I don't. I justthink the ad is not good and Apple
has a high bar because most peoplethink that Apple is the has the number
one ad of all time, right, the nineteen eighty four ad. That's
why when you look at the rankingswhere they do these stupid list, that's
almost always at the top. Sothere's a high bar if you're Apple.
I don't think. I don't thinkthe ad was very interesting, but I

(01:11:46):
think the message is the key hereand it's fine. But where God whacked
out is in Japan? Do yousee how bad the Japanese are and like
Japanese public because it's like there's acultural slight. I guess we're destroying music
instruments, which I was unaware ofit. So yeah, I mean there's
a lot going on here. Yeah. One of my favorite, one of
my favorite corporate communications accounts that Ifollow is Lulu Maservi. She used to

(01:12:13):
run comms for Substack and then shewas at Microsoft activision, you know,
before the Microsoft or the merger thatjust happened recently. But she she kind
of laid out here that like Apple'shistory with its founding was that these were
supposed to beautiful products. There aresort of works of art in and of

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themselves, you know. The wholeidea behind Apple was that they were supposed
to be as beautiful on the insideas they're outside, and that they were
supposed to be about the power ofpeople, not the machine, which in
that time was Microsoft, Apple's competitor. I'm sorry, not not Microsoft,

(01:12:54):
but some of Apple's competitors in theearly days of computing and the internet,
Dell and the Life. So,like the whole idea here is counter to
that, Like in this ad youhave beautiful works of art and human ingenuity
and classical stuff being literally destroyed.And so it's it's sort of like this

(01:13:14):
weird branding pivot in another direction whereI think like Apple back in the day
would have never shown something like this, but they were an edgy brand.
They used to do sort of transgressivethings, and this is a little bit
of a transgressive ad. Well.But here's the other thing. I reject
the idea that the just people whoare painting van Go style or banging away

(01:13:36):
on a on a piano, orartists. They are, don't get me
wrong, and I'm down for that. I love people who are really good
at stuff. I find that amazing. But also I think it's pretty artistic.
You got a duel. You gotduel was the only screens. There's
two on there, there's the amountof storage is crazy, the processing speed

(01:13:59):
is crazy, and it weighs twicewhat my iPad air two which kind of
mostly sometimes works. Ways, howis that not an achievement? Uh,
an artistic achieve I understand it's aproduct, but yeah, you can't argue
that the first iPhone was not alsoartistic in nature, and this isn't that.
Yeah, that's what they strive for. And the I don't trust the

(01:14:23):
what I was told. The weightof this thing is boggles my mind.
I believe it. But holy crap, man, that is amazing. Yeah,
and this is this is the kindof a thing for consumer products.
Is you when you're making ads,you want people to be having the right
conversation about your products. And sowhen you're going to roll out this piece
of technology which apple, oh mygosh, Like I am excited as an

(01:14:45):
Apple person, this is going tobe such a cool new era where you
can take some of these really powerfulMacBook Pro tools on the go with you
almost anywhere, and they're going tobe perfectly functional. That's that's what you
want people talking about. And soI'm not really of the belief that all
press is good press. I actuallydon't believe in that old marketing adage.

(01:15:06):
And you know, when it comesto the new ad, you want people
to be talking about the beauty ofit, not the waste and the bones
of retro products that went into makingthe iPad under the weight of industry.
That's not a beautiful image. SoI think I love little cultural slights too
that you don't know about. Doyou try to travel inside the US a

(01:15:27):
lot? It's wild to learn.I do. I do recently. Yeah,
I've been traveling recently for my mywork at the Consumer Choice Center there.
When I when I've traveled in there'smany countries. There's several countries in
Latin America I traveled to and Ididn't know a thing for a long time,
and I could never understand. Sowhen somebody says you speak any Spanish

(01:15:48):
at all, you almost does right, How are you right? That's that's
one end the end. But that'snot the correct answer. Did you know
that you go to coast Town?I didn't go to Panama. No,
the correct answer is Bienny two.It's because it is culturally rude for me
not to ask how you're doing afteryou asked how I was doing, and

(01:16:10):
so pee I've answered people and theygive me a weird look, and I'm
like, what did I do wrong? And then somebody explained it to me
one time, and it's just butit's those little nuanced things like I didn't
know in Japan the demolishing a musicalinstrument is a cultural slight. Did you
know that? I didn't know that. But Apple probably not know that.
But that's that sounds like a thingthat the Japanese would feel. That just

(01:16:32):
feels very Yeah, well there's alot of tradition over there, which is
fine, but like, but Appleshould probably know that. So if there
is fault here, maybe that itwould be. But I got we got
to pivot over to Microsoft because actuallyI can solve the Microsoft problem. Explain
what the problem is. Explain whatthe problem is first, and I'll explain
the solution. Go right, aheadset this up. Why are people mad

(01:16:53):
at Microsoft? And by people Imean Commons. Yes, well, Microsoft
Xbox is joining the rest of theindustry in around another round of layoffs within
its video game division. So therehave already been at least nineteen hundred layoffs

(01:17:13):
at Activision, Blizzard, and Xboxsince their merger that closed just a couple
of months ago. And you knowthere's another round coming. And this is
right next to Sony, you know, who has PlayStation who just announced that
they're going to be laying off ninehundred employees. So there's a huge level
of staffing retraction going on across thevideo game industry. Despite some breakout hits

(01:17:36):
here and there. You know,they're not like struggling in all cases to
have hit games. But there seemsto be a disconnect, at least in
the consumer side between the perception thatthese companies are consolidating and doing well.
So why are they laying off employees? I mean, I have a couple

(01:17:56):
answers for that, but I'm curiouswhat you have to say about that.
I have, Well, I havea final I have a solution at the
end of it. So why,I mean, my theory on why they're
doing it is because it's literally howacquisitions work and when you're rolling different things
in. And by the way,a lot of these folks are not doing
the job that they were initially doing, but they are now still working within

(01:18:18):
the company or have went in withother studios. Well, there's a little
bit of a problem there Casey though, which is that when the FTC came
after Microsoft Activisions. Yeah, therewas a guarantee that was made by Microsoft
Activision that they were not going tobe layoffs because there was not going to

(01:18:39):
be any duplication between roles. Theywere going to virtual vertically integrate, and
so having layoffs makes them appear asif they are going up against that.
But you know, the real problemhere is that it's not about the vertical
integration. It's that the business isnot growing. This business is in retraction
because of the massive cost of TripleA games that are not competing quite as

(01:19:04):
well as indie games that are onSteam for PC gamers. Indie studios are
crushing it, and these big studiosand these big consoles are being annihilated by
the cost of production for big blockbustervideo games. Yeah, and I get
it. And you know, generally, even when you have those agreements.

(01:19:25):
This is where you get the politicsof it, if you when people deep
dive agreements like that because I didn'twant I didn't want Microsoft to buy Blizzard
when they first brought it up,because I was concerned as a Diablo fan
that and a guy who had PlayStationequipment, I was. I was worried
that these guys would try to notput it on PlayStation or something crazy like

(01:19:47):
that. But like after that,I'm just sitting there and I'm looking at
it, like, okay, allright, you made this agreement. But
those agreements also generally have somebody froma glatory standpoint is looking at it.
You can still lay people off,but it has to be within certain parameters
like normal business stuff. Right.So but now you know, if you

(01:20:09):
can make an argument that meets thoserequirements, then that's fine and we can
have a debate. But people aregoing out and they say, now they
can't lay anyone off, and that'snot how these things actually work. As
you pointed out specific situations and thatwell, and that doesn't even account Casey
for like I mean, I hateto say it, but Generative AI is
going to lay off a ton ofthese kids in the video game industry who

(01:20:32):
make their bones being on teams oftwenty people generating landscapes and environments for massive
online games, you know, likeThe Red Dead, Redemptions of the World
or something you know, where youcan spend hours exploring an environment. Those
are the kinds of jobs that aregoing to be click one and done for

(01:20:53):
generative AI technology that can make theseenvironments immediately. More layoffs are coming.
Yeah, let me just say thisand then I'll give you my solution.
The thing is, though, thisis another eat the rich thing, right,
and it doesn't help with the president'scoming out bitching about how much his
snickers cost or his chips or whatever, because the reality is and this I

(01:21:17):
look, I understand the corporate greedis a thing, but it's also a
thing like everything else that has tobe managed because investors notice stuff like that,
and that is that's where the realrubber meets the road. So that's
kind of the stop gap there.But secondly, this idea that making video
games should be about passion and notmoney is that's childish thinking because of the

(01:21:41):
cost of these games. And soyes, you can say that, but
the quality control oftentimes is the money. So my solution if you're not worried
about any of that. All thegame devs, everything sees the means one
big government game game dot gov.They just produce all the games. I'm
sure they'll be amazing, right,And I think I think it could work.

(01:22:02):
I love your solution. Yeah,no, it'd be great because even
the government a Yablo sequel in undertwelve years. I stand by that it's
possible. If possible, you know, I've seen some of these quotes from
gamers saying that like video games areabout making art, not about you know,
making money. Yeah, like yousaid, childish. There's a really

(01:22:24):
wonderful quote from George Lucas in twentyten where he was hosting a film sort
of festival for Isabeli I'll blow youaway on this one for Israeli and Palestinian
filmmakers, and he told them inthis panel that he was doing with the
filmmakers, if you really want tosucceed in this business, make movies that
people want to see. They onlyhave so much money in their pockets,

(01:22:46):
and it's your job as an artistto make something that people want to spend
their limited dollars on. So thebest capitalist critics are capitalists themselves. Yeah,
and then he added put a chicken, it make her gay, So
I believe it was maybe I probablyhave to do all right, man,
I got a roll, thank you, and we'll be right back. I
didn't pull all of it because Iknow it was pretty It was far along

(01:23:09):
in the news cycle and I'm sureyou all saw it. But I just
have to verbalize this is the amountof rage. I do a pretty good
job, and I think that it'slike it's like I don't want to compare
exactly what we do, so understandthe analogy, but it's like you become
desensitized. It's like some dude whojust got back from his seventh tour and

(01:23:30):
now I'm kind of like, well, oh you want that. You know,
they see some horrific car accident yougag induced it, and that dude's
just staring at it. Like butI think with the with if I literally
had a physical reaction to every dumbstory I come across and got angry about
it, I probably be dead bynow just considering what we do. That

(01:23:51):
being said old school rage inducing.Watching Chris Cuomo and what's her name,
doctor ren or whatever? Who wasthe CD was CDC direct. Yeah,
I think she was former direct whateverto watch the both of them in recent
videos talk about the ineffectiveness of massand the awesomeness of ivermectam. I about

(01:24:15):
lost but crap man Chris Cuomo,who if you remember remember this dude when
they're like everyone's on lockdown and he'sout what he's out in the and he's
supposed to and he had COVID,right, that was the deal. He
had COVID or he was being quarantinedand then he's out doing real estate shopping,
right you remember all that and hetried to deny. It was just

(01:24:35):
so dumb. But he's like,he's taking ivermectam because he says he has
long COVID. Okay, I'm nothere to debate long COVID or not,
whether that is a thing or isn'ta thing. Some people think that it's
damage that may have been done bya previous COVID infection that sticks with you,
so it technically wouldn't be the same, but it's also it's it's not

(01:24:57):
again, I'm not here to argueany of this, and I'm slicing and
Dyson here is because whatever you think, whether it is its own thing,
or you're dealing with the damage whichnow mimics symptoms of the actual when you
have an active infection. The thingyou're trying to solve, the discomfort is
it sounds like the same thing,right, your your lung, your your

(01:25:20):
lung capacity, the oxygen, allof those things that you know indicate respiratory
stuff. You're trying to deal withthem. And so you're doing the thing
to deal with it that you sayis working for you, trying to say
that this is a different disease eventhough you're treating the same exact things that

(01:25:44):
what Joe Rogan and others were sayingthey were attempting to treat, and in
Rogan's case, seemingly successfully. Andthen he also is pretending like I wasn't
I wasn't mocking people. And there'svideo instantly available of him and Don lemon
clown and other eating horse food.Right, just garbage, just garbage.

(01:26:05):
The CDC official to sit there andpull that same stuff. Screw all you
didn't they try to deep platform Roganover the ivermectin stuff and the COVID stuff.
Yes, remember this jackass being onuh the j him remember the OJA.
If you don't remember the famous OJpicture on Time magazine where they made
it darker. They did that toRogan. They they made him look more

(01:26:28):
jaundiced. And it wasn't by accident. What was the Remember when he had
his brother on the Governor of NewYork, right, Cuomo, he had
the big, the big goofy covidprop Remember when they were Yeah, it
was a big it was what wasit a big? Was it a needle?
Right? And then he's like,well the science changed? Now did
it? Did the science change?Well? I don't know. I think

(01:26:50):
he's arguing that, I for longcovid is effective, but for regular you're
you're eating horse food. I guessmaybe maybe that's still his position. I
don't know. He's having verse effectsnow to the to the vaccine and he's
like, well, maybe you knowit's not exactly the safest thing. And
it's like, you push that stuff, dude, You and your brother consistently
pushed that stuff. You're responsible fora lot of people being like injured or

(01:27:11):
dying. Sorry you are, Yeah. I mean it's not like they killed
a bunch of old people by stickingthem into a room together, right,
I got all about that. Howdid we that's this is what's shazy.
That's what that's what's crazy. Howmany people went, oh, that's right,
he did murder an old people,including a Fox News host. He
was completely you know the science change. No, you were just completely wrong
about everything, and anybody who spokeout about it, you wanted to silence

(01:27:31):
them. You called him idiots.Even people are they're like, I have
more questions, and they're like,why won't you listen? Right, you're
trying to kill ground, like whileyou're literally your brother is literally killing grind.
You know the talking boys here fromthe administration, and you're clearly wrong,
right, well from China some ofthem, the early ones. Well
I didn't say which administration, butyes, oh that's fair, Yes,

(01:27:53):
yes, yes, yes, that'sthat's a fair point. Oh. I
just it just made me so angry. So then I have to go and
I got to find stuff that makesme happy again. And the lawsuit that
was filed yesterday against the Tides Foundationmakes me happy. Tides Foundation obviously is
the passer. Yes, this isyou get in the Soro stuff. Ironically

(01:28:18):
it's his brother who runs it.Now, I think that part of it,
and I don't know if you knowthis. They're Jewish, so you
know, there is that little nuggetthere. But that's what this lawsuit is
about, the funneling of money tothese four organizations that are prevalent on most
campuses. There are the big campuses. It is the what the money is

(01:28:41):
supposed to be for, all right, And so this is where the lawsuit
comes in. So the Tides Foundationyesterday was sued by BLM, and BLM
says that the thirty three or thirtyfive million that's already been you know,
pushed through for this call right here, I was a giant Q tip,
thank you, Yeah, a giantQ tip. I remember it was dumb

(01:29:05):
as well. But so the thirtysome million that's been you know spread out
for this all of these you knowthis Hamas protests. BLM says that the
Tides Foundation received donations a donation increaseduring their summer of insanity, directly in

(01:29:26):
front of a presidential election. Quinkinink and uh so therefore that's their money,
and so they're demanding the Tides Foundationgive them the money. So BLMS
suing them for thirty three million orwhatever it is. And right there,
this is that Godzilla meme right withthe die with the doctor from Godzilla and

(01:29:46):
you to see him. He justsays, let him fight. Yes,
absolutely, moon back on Moonbat violence. I am so. I'm so here
for that. Although when you're talkingabout the apparatus that is Tides Foundation and
these other big, big, big, big dark money groups, uh,
that is a bit dropping the buckety, But what the hell, man,

(01:30:09):
what the hell? And all,and and keep in mind that this is
the national organization which is being whichwas sued by the local bms because they
were fundraising like ah, look whathappened and then insert whatever the city and
then the local chapter wouldn't get anyof the money. So they're already infighting
themselves. And now they're the oneis gonna go sue somebody else, so

(01:30:31):
then the other ones will probably tryto get that money. I'm here for
it. Let it happen, man, can't wait? All right, coming
up, I promised you insanity.Uh, And we got two other little
audio cuts for you. We'll getto in the last segment, but let's
go ahead and get weather right nowwith Ray Stagic Ray. How you doing
so? Hey, I'm doing okay, Kase. Do you ever have a

(01:30:55):
Swiss Army knife sir, no,would I have one? But I don't
carry it on me and I don'tuse you had one. You had one,
so you know they're take they're takingthe knife out of it. Oh
okay, So were they called thenjust a Swiss army nail kit? I
think no, because but no,And like they they make some arguments that

(01:31:19):
are really like if they're gonna stillhave ones with knives, but their basic
models they wouldn't have it, won'thave one, and they say that there's
people can't travel with them. Buteven if you take the knife off a
Swiss army knife, everything else ontheir TSA is going to steal from you,
right, so that's not gonna work. And then also a lot of
countries heavily restrict knives, so theyhurts their sales in the UK, which

(01:31:43):
I guess I kind of get that. And then they said it, uh,
you know, it has a connotationand air of violence, and it's
like, okay, you remove knife, but another part of your name is
army, so you're you're dumb.I thought it was a Swiss party.
And what are they cheese and horns, cough drops, Ross said, Ross

(01:32:04):
said hot coco. But I've Rossremember they that was on the list of
problematic brands. Now that we're rememberingstuff, because when it was when they
had a problem with with uh uhstereotypical versions of individual groups, uh mean
the spokesperson even though they're not existed. This is what happened to Uncle Ben

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and Aunt Jemima. And I rememberreading the list and it was all those
and then they had the Swiss missgirl on there, and I'm like,
that one's not gonna get canceled.So it didn't, but they tried so
enough like a cork screw, right, you know, I mean, you
take then away. You see whatdo you see what the Equalizer did with
that? Denzel did with that.I did not. You didn't see the
Equalizer. I may have. Justlet's just say it doesn't go well for

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the Russian mob anyway. I'm sure. Yeah, it's short term going okay
for us. A few spotty showersacross the triangle right now. Heavier rainfalls
start to come back into some ofour western counties just west of the Triad,
coming through McDowell Rutford County, that'sout near Asheville. None of these

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storms are warned on, but I'mserned a little bit about maybe some flooding
with this rain coming in. Thestorms may get strong, potentially severe through
this morning, but I don't thinkwidespread. I think heavy rain is a
greater threat. And after the windand the rain that some spots for the
west had yesterday, were kind ofglad that we're not seeing anything in the

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way of heavier rainfall coming back.Our heavier storms coming back in some of
the storms that are severe, sheremain out across North Georgia and Alabama.
So a few more showers and thensome heavier rain and showers this morning into
the afternoon. We may see alingering shower storm, but I think most
of it's going to wrap up.Could climb in a little bit. It's

(01:33:54):
good to kind how much sun weget. I'm not quite sure we're going
to get that warm tonight. We'llstart the clear way, actually pretty pleasant
morning. We should lose some ofthe humidity by tomorrow. Morning load of
mid sixties had just a small chanceof an afternoon shower thunderstorm Tomorrow. Most
of the day for most of us, dry and mild, with some sun
upper seventies maybe eighty in spots,fright chances some rain Saturday afternoon mid seventies,

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so big cool down and that muchbetter. On Sunday Mother's Day,
mid seventies again and mostly sunny.Over night loads will be in the load
of mid fifties, and some spotsmay even different than the forties. KC.
So another day of kind of unsettled. Whether I think by noon it
will start improving slowly? Did mentiona shower thunder shower chants tomorrow? Certainly
gets a lot better about the upcomingweekend. All right, cool, Thank

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you, sir, appreciate it.And we'll come back with Jeff Bellinger,
And like I said, we'll headto Denver and we got a couple of
things for you. So hang on. Bloomberg Update now with Jeff Bellinger.
Jeff, what's going on? Well, good morning, casey. Major stock
averages were mixed yesterday. The Dowmost significantly up one hundred and seventy two
points, and that extended the longestblue chip winning streaks so far this year

(01:35:00):
that with six sessions. The Nasdaqfell back thirty points two tens percent.
The S and P five hundred wasessentially unchanged by the end of the year.
The only car in the Chevrolet lineupwill be the Corvette. General Motors
will end production of the Chevrolet Malibuin November. It's going to retool the
Kansas assembly plant that makes the Sedanto produce the electric Chevrolet Bold. The

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Malibu has been popular. GM hassold more than ten million of them,
one hundred thirty thousand last year alone. A significant increase last week in the
number of workers signing up for unemploymentbenefits. The Labor Department counted two hundred
thirty one thousand first time applications,and that was up from two hundred nine
thousand in the prior week. Newfinancial issues affect your psyche. Bank Rate

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reports nearly half of all American adultssay money has a negative impact on their
mental health at least some of thetime. Worries over debt, student loans,
savings, and retirement can lead tostress and sleepless nights. The hackers
behind last year's cyber attack on MGMresorts have new targets. Cyber Security researchers
say the bad guys are going afterbanks and insurance companies now, and the

(01:36:11):
Casey Walt, Disney and Warner BrothersDiscovery are planning to jointly market their top
video streaming services. Beginning this summer, the companies will offer a bundle that
includes Disney Plus, Hulu and Max. Subscribers will be able to choose either
the ad free or add supported versionsof the services. The companies have not
yet said how much these bundles willcost. Casey, all right, Jeff,

(01:36:33):
appreciate it, sir. We'll talktomorrow. Okay, Okay, on
to Friday. Talk to you then, have a good day. Yeah,
there you go, Jeff Bellinger,Bloomberg News joining us. All right,
So Russ Sam and this link forthese shoes and then it was he sent
me and admittedly so so somebody madethis really nice business looking shoe. And

(01:36:54):
the model is called the Joseph Stalin, except now it's not because they've changed
the name. Because I think peoplesaw this and uh, what did you
ask on the price? I can'tremember what was your question? Well,
initially, like I thought it wasit was like ten thousand something or other,
but I didn't think it was dollars, is it? Because thinking about
him, like, maybe it wasn't. I'm not sure what currency was.

(01:37:15):
Oh, that's the Uh, it'snot that So that symbol is the is
the symbol for Indias because it's arupee. Oh okay, yeah, because
it was it's a new thing.Yeah, it's so that would be.
Let's see here it's twelve thousand rupees. So well, I got a call
of a converter here. It's aboutone hundred and sixty dollars right now for

(01:37:41):
the shoe. But still it's calledthe Joseph Stalin. Right. It's a
good working demands shoe, is it. I get? I mean, one
hundred and sixty isn't crazy for it, but in India it probably is.
I don't think a lot of dudesare walking around most of India, but
I've been to India. Most dudesare not walking around at one hundred and
sixty dollars shoes. Okay, betternamed Joseph Stalin. Well, but remember

(01:38:02):
it's India where they like to namelike Hitler chicken. So like, how
many stories have we done where it'sjust some insane like come to or then
they have the Obama chicken, whichpeople, you know, for the races,
you know, like oh it's racist, And I'm like, all right,
go tell the dude in you know, Bangalore or whatever, who you
know, see how he feels aboutthat. While he's scamming your grandmother,